PC DRAM Price Hike Armageddon Could Subside During Q3 2021 According To New Forecasts

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [PC DRAM Price Hike Armageddon Could Subside During Q3 2021 According To New Forecasts]( By Brandon Hill on Jul 13, 2021 02:43 pm [PC DRAM Price Hike Armageddon Could Subside During Q3 2021 According To New Forecasts]( In late April, research firm TrendForce sounded alarm bells when it projected that soaring PC demand would mean bad news for PC DRAM prices. At the time, the company showed PC DRAM prices increases of 23 to 28 percent during Q2 2021, with an increase in the average selling price (ASP) jumping by as much as 23 percent. However, the firm is [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Here's How The New Windows 11 Recommendation Engine Can Fine-Tune Your PC]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 13, 2021 01:38 pm [Here's How The New Windows 11 Recommendation Engine Can Fine-Tune Your PC]( Windows 11 is still a work in progress, even as it nears a wholesale release sometime this holiday season (perhaps as early as October). That means there could be new features in the final build that have not been disclosed yet. In the meantime, the Windows Insider program is our, erm, window into Windows 11, and the latest build has a new [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Apple's Mini-LED MacBook Pros Could Be A Huge Hit According To Supply Chain Rumors]( By Brandon Hill on Jul 13, 2021 01:06 pm [Apple's Mini-LED MacBook Pros Could Be A Huge Hit According To Supply Chain Rumors]( Apple is widely expected to launch its next-generation MacBook Pros later this year, and recent rumors have suggested that the laptops will feature mini LED displays. Earlier this year, Apple first brought mini LED technology to the forefront with the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and has struggled to keep up with demand due to component shortages. Now, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Red Dead Redemption 2 Blood Money Update Brings New Crimes And NVIDIA DLSS To The Wild West]( By Nathan Ord on Jul 13, 2021 12:55 pm [Red Dead Redemption 2 Blood Money Update Brings New Crimes And NVIDIA DLSS To The Wild West]( Crime never pays unless you are playing Red Dead Redemption 2 with the new Blood Money update, allowing players to “venture into the criminal underworld of the west.” There is a lot to cover in this update, so let’s giddy up! The Blood Money update brings a host of new criminal possibilities for all players, including with Guido Martelli, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Super Mario Themed Tag Heuer Wear OS Smartwatch Is Super Exclusive And Costs $2,150]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 13, 2021 11:57 am [Super Mario Themed Tag Heuer Wear OS Smartwatch Is Super Exclusive And Costs $2,150]( There are plenty of gadgets you can play games on—PCs, dedicated game consoles, tablets, smartphones, and so forth. Will wearables represent the next gaming frontier? We'll have to wait and see, but Tag Heuer has taken a step in that general direction with its Connected Super Mario Limited Edition smartwatch. A themed smartwatch is one [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Launches New Dev Kit To Create Optimized And High-Quality Android Games]( By Nathan Ord on Jul 13, 2021 11:50 am [Google Launches New Dev Kit To Create Optimized And High-Quality Android Games]( In late June, Google began the phaseout of Android Application Packages (APKs) in favor of Android Application Bundles (AABs). With these changes and improvements for developers, the Mountain View-based company is now introducing the Android Game Development Kit (AGDK), “a full range of tools and libraries to help you develop, optimize, and [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Pixel 4 Slashed To All-Time Low $400 With These Hot Deals]( By Brandon Hill on Jul 13, 2021 11:21 am [Google Pixel 4 Slashed To All-Time Low $400 With These Hot Deals]( Google's Pixel 4 family of smartphones is still quite capable nearly two years after they originally launched. The Pixel 4 initially launched with a $799 price tag, but you can now get the smartphone for half that price at Amazon and B&H Photo. The base Pixel 4 with 64GB of internal storage (unlocked) is now ringing up at $399.99 at Amazon [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Cyberpunk 2077 Ranks As Most Downloaded PS4 Game In June Following Sony Reinstatement]( By Brittany Goetting on Jul 13, 2021 10:37 am [Cyberpunk 2077 Ranks As Most Downloaded PS4 Game In June Following Sony Reinstatement]( Cyberpunk 2077 is notorious for game-breaking bugs and poor performance. These issues have caused the game to be unavailable to PlayStation 4 owners until recently. However, these problems do not seem to have deterred eager consumers. Cyberpunk 2077 was the most downloaded game on the PlayStation 4 during June 2021 in the United States and [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [WD_Black SN850 SSD Firmware Update Fixes Write Performance On AMD X570 Boards]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 13, 2021 10:09 am [WD_Black SN850 SSD Firmware Update Fixes Write Performance On AMD X570 Boards]( Imagine paying a premium for a blazing fast PCI Express 4.0 solid state drive only to discover that it coughs up a hairball on your specific PC platform. Sour grapes, right? Well, that is the situation some owners of X570 motherboards found themselves in when slapping a WD Black SN850 SSD into their PC, but fortunately there is now a fix available. Let's [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake-S 16-Core, 24-Thread CPU Allegedly Hits 5.3GHz]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 13, 2021 09:30 am [Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake-S 16-Core, 24-Thread CPU Allegedly Hits 5.3GHz]( Within a matter of months, Intel will introduce its first Alder Lake processors, effectively marking a near wholesale transition to hybrid computing, and kicking off the DDR5 memory era. From an official standpoint, SKUs and specifications are still a mystery. Unofficially, however, leaks and rumors paint an interesting picture, the latest [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AT&T Feels The Heat From T-Mobile, Lifts Speed Caps On Unlimited Elite Phone Plans]( By Brandon Hill on Jul 13, 2021 09:20 am [AT&T Feels The Heat From T-Mobile, Lifts Speed Caps On Unlimited Elite Phone Plans]( T-Mobile is famous for starting trends in the wireless industry that forces its competitors to take notice and match it feature-for-feature. For example, T-Mobile was the first to usher back in the era of "unlimited" smartphone plans. Then, in February, the company launched its Magenta MAX plan that removed data throttling from the equation [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Virgin Galactic Is Raffling Off Two Seats On An Upcoming Suborbital Space Flight]( By Nathan Ord on Jul 12, 2021 03:28 pm [Virgin Galactic Is Raffling Off Two Seats On An Upcoming Suborbital Space Flight]( On Sunday, Virgin Galactic founder and owner Richard Branson took off to the edge of space with several other specialists from Virgin Galactic. Now that he has returned, Branson announced “something very exciting to give more people a chance to become astronauts”: a giveaway for two seats on a Virgin Galactic flight to space. 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